[QUOTE=Panda X;22467333]Wait. Isn't that $7.5k/song?[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I was thinking, my good man.
Pay with zimbabwean dollars.
As long as they target Limewire and not the people using it.
[QUOTE=Kidd;22477719]As long as they target Limewire and not the people using it.[/QUOTE]
The lawsuits probably will disseminate down to the end user level, even if they did not do anything illegal, they will still get sued. As with ninety percent of copyright infringement lawsuits.
[QUOTE=frankie penis;22466270]does that much money even exist.[/QUOTE]
Uhh, yeah
[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;22466119]Hahaha the RIAA is a fucking joke[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Strongbad;22479326][/QUOTE]
So, if I filled up every mobile device and hard drive I owned, with music about 5 MB each, my music collection would be worth $133,500,000. Makes sense. Maybe I should try selling my collection to the RIAA.
My iTunes library has 112,000 songs (which is over 540 gigabytes) and you can be sure as shit I didn't buy it all.
How much is my computer worth, theoretically?
[B]Limewire [/B](Noun):
1. A Peer To Peer Program mainly used to share music illegally and also get a fuckton of viruses. Yet my classmates still use it, including the teachers.
[sp]I saw LimeWire on my teacher's dock[/sp]
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[QUOTE=Ganoric Mank;22475896]image that is late[/QUOTE]
Welcome back.
[QUOTE=SKuM;22479519]My iTunes library has 112,000 songs (which is over 540 gigabytes) and you can be sure as shit I didn't buy it all.
How much is my computer worth, theoretically?[/QUOTE]
You are the first person to actually have more music than me.
The pirates aren't really cutting their profits. The people who will buy their products still stay the same, it's the fact that the pirates are usually more active consumers (meaning they might download 10 albums as opposed to one album bough per week for example).
I can't remember who it was but someone did a study on iPhone piracy. The publishers said 90% of their games are pirated and they are losing 90% of money. And were 90% of iPhones jailbroken? No, 5-10% of them were.
The ones that had jailbroken iPhones were just downloading much more software per head while being a very small group compared to the buying public. In reality, most of the people still bought their software and the pirates contributed very little in the "huge loss of profit" which they wouldn't have gotten out of the pirates anyway.
[QUOTE=PLing;22480912]The pirates aren't really cutting their profits. The people who will buy their products still stay the same, it's the fact that the pirates are usually more active consumers (meaning they might download 10 albums as opposed to one album bough per week for example).
I can't remember who it was but someone did a study on iPhone piracy. The publishers said 90% of their games are pirated and they are losing 90% of money. And were 90% of iPhones jailbroken? No, 5-10% of them were.
The ones that had jailbroken iPhones were just downloading much more software per head while being a very small group compared to the buying public. In reality, most of the people still bought their software and the pirates contributed very little in the "huge loss of profit" which they wouldn't have gotten out of the pirates anyway.[/QUOTE]
The average Joe will buy a car or maybe 2 at max each 5 years. Give that same average Joe the possibility to get free cars whenever he wants with no limit and I can guarantee you that he will not stop at 2 each 5 years.
Pirates tend to download much much more than they would actually buy : just look at Photoshop.
Yes but PLing, that's logic. When have large businesses ever successfully used logic?
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;22467856]I also like how a digital set of sounds is worth more than physical injuries. For instance a few years back I got hit by a lady in an suv while I was on a bike. I have permanent damage to my arms from it. I got 25,000. Of which I actually got 14,000 after fees and ambulance chaser got his cut.
But somehow a song can be worth as much as what I got. :/[/QUOTE]
The record industry is super srs :colbert:
[QUOTE=SKuM;22479519]My iTunes library has 112,000 songs (which is over 540 gigabytes) and you can be sure as shit I didn't buy it all.
How much is my computer worth, theoretically?[/QUOTE]
Can we have a screenshot of your library?
Can we just you know... get rid of the RIAA?
[img]http://www.jinx.com/Content/Product/285p_1c_1b.jpg[/img]
The RIAA never ceases to piss me off.
RIAA = the WBC of Media.
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Honestly if I was the Judge I would have thrown this out the moment I saw that figure.
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[QUOTE=SKuM;22479519]My iTunes library has 112,000 songs (which is over 540 gigabytes) and you can be sure as shit I didn't buy it all.
How much is my computer worth, theoretically?[/QUOTE]
*pulls up Calculator*
112,000 Songs
$750 per Song
Eighty-four Million (84,000,000) Dollars exactly.
:downs:
RIAA are just attention whores
[QUOTE=Riddler80;22469622]The Pirate Bay hasn't been hiding under that excuse for way too long. It's not an exceause, it's a fact. They are not doing anything wrong! They provide a host for a torrent file that allows people to send files. Some of which can contain perfictly ligitimate files that are being sent. You can't blame the people who created the site for what people do with it. Do we sue gun manufacturers because people used there product to kill people?[/QUOTE]
Actually yeah that [i]is[/i] why you can't buy or own weapons in most countries, and even in the US I believe it is illegal to sell guns to people who haven't been thouroughly checked and are mentally stable, normal people.
It is an excuse and it is the worst excuse in the universe. If I fund and create a space where people can trade anything, including drugs and asian wives, but also innocent things like pokemon cards and computer games, mainly drugs though. In fact, I only created the space for people to be able to trade illegal drugs. Am I then somehow not a drug dealer? As a service it is your responsibility that no illegal things take place in your confines, Youtube is actively campaigning against copyright infringement, even if somewhat sloppily and half heartedly. The Pirate Bay and Limewire let it run rampant. BitTorrent itself isn't to blame, but The Pirate Bay surely is.
And if you'll notice, BitTorrent is actually creating an environment of legal content.
[QUOTE=BmB;22482088]Actually yeah that [i]is[/i] why you can't buy or own weapons in most countries, and even in the US I believe it is illegal to sell guns to people who haven't been thouroughly checked and are mentally stable, normal people.
It is an excuse and it is the worst excuse in the universe. If I fund and create a space where people can trade anything, including drugs and asian wives, but also innocent things like pokemon cards and computer games, mainly drugs though. In fact, I only created the space for people to be able to trade illegal drugs. Am I then somehow not a drug dealer? As a service it is your responsibility that no illegal things take place in your confines, Youtube is actively campaigning against copyright infringement, even if somewhat sloppily and half heartedly. The Pirate Bay and Limewire let it run rampant. BitTorrent itself isn't to blame, but The Pirate Bay surely is.
And if you'll notice, BitTorrent is actually creating an environment of legal content.[/QUOTE]
So google should be held responsible for all child porn you can find through their search engine?
[QUOTE=JolKally;22477656]Pay with zimbabwean dollars.[/QUOTE]
Easy, I have two 100 trillion notes framed.
Brb getting hammer
[quote]“Since July 2008, the LimeWire client software has been downloaded from the website more than 50 million times, bringing the total downloads of the client from just that one website – i.e., exclusive of downloads from Lime Wire’s own website – to more than 200 million (and counting).”[/quote]
I don't get this part. Are they saying they're sueing limewire for the amount of times the client has been downloaded?
I like to imagine the RIAA as an injured man trying desperately to climb the Hill of Piracy where at the top lies the cure to piracy. It's a losing battle and the man repeatedly trips and falls over while onlookers just laugh at him. He's getting more and more frustrated and starts going crazy and the onlookers just laugh some more.
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